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<td class="v">4:1</td>
<td>So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.</td>
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<td class="v">4:2</td>
<td>Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.</td>
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<td class="v">4:3</td>
<td>Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.</td>
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<td class="v">4:4</td>
<td>Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.</td>
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<td class="v">4:5</td>
<td>The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh.</td>
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<td class="v">4:6</td>
<td>Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.</td>
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<td class="v">4:7</td>
<td>Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun.</td>
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<td class="v">4:8</td>
<td>There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.</td>
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<td class="v">4:9</td>
<td>Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.</td>
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<td class="v">4:10</td>
<td>For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.</td>
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<td class="v">4:11</td>
<td>Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone?</td>
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<td class="v">4:12</td>
<td>And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.</td>
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<td class="v">4:13</td>
<td>Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.</td>
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<td class="v">4:14</td>
<td>For out of prison he cometh to reign; whereas also he that is born in his kingdom becometh poor.</td>
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<td class="v">4:15</td>
<td>I considered all the living which walk under the sun, with the second child that shall stand up in his stead.</td>
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<td class="v">4:16</td>
<td>There is no end of all the people, even of all that have been before them: they also that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.</td>
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